To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Besides working as a casting director with Joshua Logan, Bob Fosse, Tom O’ Horgan, Mike Nichols, Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Stuart Ostrow, David. When Streisand, Redford, Vereen, Tomlin, Midler, and Hoffman got their first breaks Michael Shurtleff was there. Read eBook on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Read Audition by Michael Shurtleff by Michael Shurtleff by Michael Shurtleff for free with a 30 day free trial.